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cultural production across and between disciplines and geographical boundaries."

A project that began as a phone conversation in 2000 and was first realized
and exhibited in 2001. People have been donating bras since then and eventually
grew to 18,085 bras -- a 5-foot tall ball weighing more than 1,800 pounds.

"I should explain
why I --an already burdened feminist graduate student with multiple 'zines,
articles, and other media projects in both development & production--
felt inordinately compelled to pick up the gauntlet and tackle this Xenian
task (yes, I am a rabid Xena fan): I got annoyed. That is, I got exceedingly
irritated trying to find rad Asian/American women's work on the web and
figured everybody else must be sick of it too." See especially "Art," and
"Filmic Interventions."

Susan Otto's exhibit
at the UCR Calif. Museum of Photography. "This cross media installation
examines the gun as a fluctuating signifier in modern culture and the unconscious
residue of violence and fear of violence in the average psyche. Hand guns
have and continue to change as a social symbol: from petty crime, to senseless
killing in the inner city, to an object that embodies urban alienation and
fear. The work examines the psychological residue of violence. " See also:
Gun
Show: In Our Sights: Artists Look at Guns

"[W]e declare
ourselves feminist counterparts to the mostly male tradition of anonymous
do-gooders like Robin Hood, Batman, and the Lone Ranger. We wear gorilla
masks to focus on the issues rather than our personalities. We use humor
to convey information, provoke discussion, and show that feminists can be
funny." You may also want to check out this article from the S.F. Chronicle/Examiner
online news site The Gate has this February 26, 1998 "The
Guerrilla Girls Make Art Herstory (Again)" by Meredith Tromble,
See also: reproduction
of GG poster

"Changing the world one sexist city at a time. ..."Guerrilla Girls
On Tour is an activist theatre collective founded in 2001 by Lorraine Hansberry,
Aphra Behn and Hallie Flanagan, former members of the Guerrilla Girls.
Guerrilla Girls On Tour is now a separate organization from the original
Guerrilla Girls and our focus is to develop new and original plays, performances
and workshops that dramatize women’s history and advocate on behalf
of women and artists of color in the performing arts"

Features the art and
culture of women of the African diaspora. Film & video, performing arts,
and written word as well as West African-centered spirituality. Produced
and maintained by "NetDiva" who has obviously combed the Internet for every
significant work of art she/they could find. A rich site.

Women and Art: Interview
with Judy Chicago "My resistance began early on, when I was a child," writes
Judy Chicago in Women and Art: Contested Territory. As a young woman,
Chicago
came to believe that much of the work proclaimed as great art denied her
"experience and feelings as a female person." Thus began her crusade,
culminating
in 1979 with the completion of her large-scale installation, The Dinner
Party, to create feminist art that would not only encompass and express
the entire being of women, but also change the world. by John W. Whitehead

British artist Kirsten
Lavers states: "My artwork is more usually made in response to non-art
spaces, places where people who come across it are not necessarily expecting
to have an 'art." This site contains one Web project in collaboration
with poet Cris Cheek and documentation of three other installations.

La Marquesa Art Gallery
is a non-profit art gallery featuring mostly unknown San Diego / Tijuana
based artists. This site is still in development but one large exhibit by
D. Emily Hicks is up, Ecotina
and the Kids from Perkins.

"Laughter Ten
Years After is a replay and expansion of The Revolutionary Power of Women's
Laughter, an exhibition organized by Jo Anna Isaak which opened in New York
City in January of 1983 and traveled in the U.S. and Canada for a period
of two years. Laugher Ten Years After is intended to commemorate the earlier
exhibition and the exceptionally prolific decade of woman's art production
which followed."

Digitally produced
images that deal in part, with the death of the artist's father. "After
a number of collective exhibitions and a few one person shows, this is the
first time that I present myself with such intimate and profound feelings."

Features: An online
gallery covering art by women from the rennaissance to living artists. Library
and Research Center with artist bibliographies, information about collections
of special collections and research materials. A product catalog from the
Museum Shop. Information about the Museum and its programs.

"Female representatives
from the visual, written, and performing arts ponder the meanings of postfeminism
in their professional and personal lives. Crossley and Joyce interviewed
the participants and integrated their comments into a simulated discussion
of postfeminism. This forum reveals the inherent polarity in the debate--a
disillusionment with feminism's proclaimed idealism and productivity, and
a reluctance to view feminism in a "post" phase." Guerrilla Girls, Critical
Arts Ensemble, Tribe 8, Eurudice, Kiki Smith, Deb Margolin and others

"Bollinger sees
the Internet as a "tremendous space to excavate. People are leaving traces,"
she says. "They are trying to claim this new space." And like an archaeologist
who digs up fossils, pots and garbage looking for a clue about an extinct
civilization, Bollinger is digging around in the living time capsules of
our culture. And she's trying to figure out what the hell is going on."
--Arline Klatte, the Gate

A registry of artwork
created by contemporary women artists. Searchable by artist name, genre,
medium movement, and medium. Additionally, women artists are free to place
their artwork on the Internet through Varo.

The Spanish surrealist
(1908-1963) who escaped the Facists of Spain and Vichy France, settled in
Mexico in 1941. This site has a biographical sketch, photos of the artist
and a large (47) collection of high quality images of her paintings. See
also: http://www.reidgroup.com/~dmg/remedios/

Part of the long-established collectively produced hypertext, The Victorian
Web. Both rich and spotty -- some artists are well covered others only
listed. Subjects:
Women as Subject, Professional Artists, Professional Sculptors, Amateur
Watercolorists, Writers on the Arts, Art Education for Women. See also
Professor Florence Boos' gallery of Victorian
and Edwardian Women Artists at the University of Iowa.

"These photographs
are part of a personal project about Mexico City which will take an extended
period of time to complete. My project is to see Mexico City from a very
personal point of view, to envision it as if I were making a visual diary,
with my comments about politics, womanhood, machismo, religion, traditions,
sexual mores, social attitudes, the imagination of the common person, high
art and popular culture."

"WomEnhouse is a collaborative,
multi-authored site that explores the politics of domesticity and gender
relations through virtual "rooms" and conceptual domestic "spaces" by 24
artists, architects, poets, art historians, and cultural theorists."

The Women's Art Register
is a collection of national significance used by artists, curators, teachers,
students, researchers, designers and the general public. Established by
artists in 1975 the Register records and promotes the work of Australian-based
women. The earliest images date from 1840.

"Founded in 1972 at
an annual meeting of the College Art Association, the Women's Caucus for
Art draws a multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary membership of over 3,000
artists, art historians and educators, gallery and museum professionals,
critics, collectors, and other professionals involved in the visual arts."
Organization information, not much else.

Women's Studio Workshop
is a not for profit artists' space founded in 1974 to provide a supportive
working environment for all persons interested in the arts. WSW staff artists
coordinates grants, fellowships, internships, and exhibition opportunities
for visual artists in state of the art printmaking, papermaking and photography
studios.

"Film, cinema, movies,
motion pictures -- covers a wide range of topics. Though "Women in Cinema"
narrows the topic in one sense to a particular type of film, at the same
time it broadens it to include many aspects of topics such as feminism,
the women's movement, and women's issues." from the introduction by the
site author, Philip McEldowney, University of Virginia.

While this site suffers
from its minimal and confusing organization, it is well worth the effort.
Lots of images of art by women from around the world, short biographies
of the artist is included. Click on small images to see larger ones.